"Baga, there is only one of our garrison wings around the artillery and baggage, and we will definitely not be able to stop the attack of the main force of the Eighth Route Army. If our artillery and baggage units are really lost, then we will not be able to complete the task personally assigned by His Excellency the Commander? Bageya Road, Chief of Staff, immediately ordered the Fenyang Garrison Wing, the 37th Infantry Wing of the Kwantung Army, which was at the end, to immediately launch an attack on the current Eighth Route Army troops, and it was necessary to break through their positions in the shortest possible time, while the defensive positions of the Eighth Route Army had not yet been fully arranged, and reinforce the artillery units and baggage troops. Stopping the chief of staff's answer, the brigade commander could not help but be taken aback. However, after a period of surprise, he still gave the battle order to the chief of staff in front of him in the shortest possible time.

"Hay, Your Excellency Brigade Commander, I'll send a report to the two wings." The chief of staff turned and ran in the direction of the station.

However, at this time, the situation of the two assault units was really as the commander of the brigade last month, Major General Yoshio Shangyue, said, and the entire blocking position had just begun to be arranged. Two trenches with a length of up to a kilometer were dug only to a depth of less than half a meter. However, the two wing commanders, who received the strict orders of the brigade commander, did not care about so much, and immediately gathered heavy troops and began to attack the two troops.

"Report to the brigade commander, report to the reconnaissance post, the army has gathered a large group of troops and is rushing towards us." Just when the brigade commander Shen Qinghua was walking back and forth between the two trenches, directing the soldiers to speed up the digging of the trenches. Hou Guoying, the commander of the regiment in charge of the direction of the military garrison wing, ran in front of Shen Qinghua with sweat on his head and reported loudly.

"Damn, the little devil won't give us a chance to breathe. Commander Hou ordered the first regiment, one or two battalions, immediately use the existing fortifications to prepare to block the little devils, and the third battalion and the directly subordinate troops continued to dig fortifications. Today, we still have a long time to stop, and if we don't have a strong fortification, by the time the battle is over, the casualties of the soldiers will be very large. Therefore, the excavation of the barrage fortifications must not stop. Shen Qinghua raised the binoculars in his hand and looked at nearly a thousand little devils, under the cover of heavy machine guns, like yellow waves, rushing towards his position. The brigade commander Shen Qinghua put down the binoculars, couldn't help but curse hatefully, and gave a combat order to Hou Guoying in front of him.

"Yes, brigade commander, don't worry, as long as I, Hou Guoying, am here, I will definitely block the attack of the little devil and hold the position." Hou Guoying replied loudly, gave a quiet military salute, turned around and ran towards his position.

In less than half a minute, a mass that had just been a digger's trench was still being dug except for a third of the fighters who were still digging. The remaining soldiers threw down their sapper shovels one after another, took out their weapons, and used the existing defensive trenches less than half a meter deep to prepare to block the attack of the little devils.

"Comrades, get ready for battle. All light and heavy machine guns should be hidden, so as not to be discovered by the grenadiers of the little devils. No one is allowed to open fire to expose the target without my orders. Looking at the nearly 1,000 soldiers who were ready for battle, Hou Guoying nodded with satisfaction. But I still can't help but remind back and forth on the position.

At the same time, a brigade of the Chinese army, which was in charge of the attack, also shouted and quickened the pace of its own charge, encouraged by the captain. Just when the army was less than 200 meters away from the soldiers, dozens of little devils, holding a grenadier canister, stopped, ready to fire at any time to support the infantry charge. The remaining nearly 1,000 infantrymen, under the command of the group leader and the leaders of each squadron, lined up in three loose skirmisher lines and quickly advanced to the position of a regiment.

"Order, after the heavy machine gun fires, immediately knock out all the grenadiers of the Japanese army, and then suppress the enemy's heavy machine gun fire point. The light machine guns and all the riflemen, who are responsible for blocking the infantry of the little devils, as long as the army rushes into the 100-meter range, do not save me ammunition, and immediately fire. "Look at dozens of grenadiers, quickly erected behind the little devil infantry. Hou Guoying knew that he did not have artillery support, and if he could not knock out the grenadiers of the Yue army in the shortest possible time, then in the next blocking battle, it would be impossible for his light and heavy machine guns to provide effective fire suppression for the infantry around him.

As the order was issued, the regiment commander Hou Guoying was also lying in the middle of the soldiers, grabbed a rifle, and aimed at a squad leader who was charging in the first row. At the same time, the distance between the two armies was silently read in his mouth. "200 meters, 180 meters, 150 meters, 130 meters, 100 meters" At this moment, a smile appeared on the corner of Hou Guoying's mouth. At the same time, the index finger of his right hand, without any hesitation, gently pulled the trigger of the rifle in his hand.

"Bang" A sharp rifle sound sounded on the position, and a little devil who was still brandishing the command knife in his hand just now, urging the soldiers to speed up the charge. Looking at his chest in disbelief, the blood hole that was constantly bubbling out of the blood, with a trace of unwillingness, fell heavily on the way to charge.

The sound of the gun was the order, and at the same time as the gun of the head of the regiment Hou Guoying rang out. Nine heavy machine guns, arranged in different positions on the position, also at the same time, all erupted dense tongues of fire. Nine dense tongues of fire, unexpectedly of the little devils, directly passed through the gap between the little devils' infantry and shot towards the grenadier position of the army two hundred meters away, which was about to shoot grenades at the soldiers.

"Ah, the heavy machine guns of the Eighth Route Army, hurry up, transfer immediately" After a dense rain of bullets, the dozens of grenadier soldiers who were squatting on the ground and ready to shoot were immediately killed. The remaining dozen or so soldiers, led by a squad leader, quickly retreated and withdrew from the range of the soldiers' heavy machine guns.

However, although the fire of the heavy machine gun company on the position destroyed most of the grenadiers of the Japanese army, it also attracted the frenzied retaliatory fire of the 12 heavy machine guns of the heavy machine gun squadron of the Japanese army. In the dense rain of bullets, more than a dozen machine gunners on the position all fell in a pool of blood in an instant. However, in the face of the threat of the heavy machine gun of the Yue army, the soldiers did not have any fear, and immediately moved away from the corpses of their comrades next to the heavy machine gun.

Along with the heavy machine guns, all the light machine guns and riflemen in the position were fired. With the sound of the regimental commander's gun, nearly a thousand rifles in the entire trench fired out the bullets in the rifles almost at the same time. A dense volley of bullets was fired, and the little devils of a squadron at the front, in the face of the shooting of the soldiers who were close at hand, had no surprise, and lost most of them at once, leaving less than a squad of little devils who luckily escaped the first round of shooting from the soldiers, and reflexively lay on the ground, ready to start shooting at the soldiers.

However, it is a pity. At the same time as they were lying on the ground, more than 20 light machine guns of the two main battalions on the entire position also spewed out dense tongues of fire at the same time. The dense rain of bullets, in addition to shooting a lot of little devils who were in the second and third straggler lines and had slow tactical reactions. All that remains is to press the little devils lying on the ground to the ground and make them unable to move. Give the infantry in the position, give the opportunity to open fire.

"Baga, why does the Eighth Route Army have such a strong firepower, Bage Yalu machine gunner, immediately carry out cover shooting, be sure to suppress the enemy's light machine guns, the infantry continue to charge, and immediately start attacking." Looking at the sudden and impermeable rain of bullets from the opposite position, a captain of the garrison wing of the Yue Army, who had never fought with the Reading Division, couldn't help but be taken aback. At the same time, while shocked, the latest combat orders were also issued to several squadron leaders around him.

Dozens of light machine guns that were attacking with the team quickly set up on the ground and opened fire quickly under the command of the team commander. Suddenly, the dense rain of bullets that had just been shot from the position suddenly became a lot more sparse under the suppression of the little devil's firepower. As for the little devil infantry lying on the ground, they also took advantage of this favorable time, and under the shouts of their respective commanders, they got up from the ground, bent over, and continued to attack. More soldiers, while attacking, kept firing at the opposite group.

In the face of the powerful firepower of the little devils, superb tactical movements. The head of the regiment, Hou Guoying, knew. If you want to block the attack of a brigade of little devils without artillery support, the only thing you can rely on is the soldiers who are also not afraid of sacrifice in your hands.

"Machine gunner, give me a hard blow, and be sure to suppress the enemy's firepower. All riflemen, keep shooting, be sure to block the charge of the little devil infantry" Hou Guoying gave a battle order loudly, and at the same time used the rifle in his hand to shoot the little devil who was getting closer and closer.

And the soldiers lying on the position, although under the accurate shooting of the army, there were continuous casualties. However, seeing the comrades around them who were shot one by one and fell in a pool of blood, the only thing they did was to turn the grief and anger in their hearts into strength, and use the rifles in their hands and the bullets in the rifles to avenge their comrades.

As a result, although the army was getting closer and closer to the soldiers' positions, the casualties of the soldiers were also increasing. However, the loss of the little devil is far more than the loss of a lump. Just after the first round of shooting by the fighters, the remaining less than 800 little devils advanced 50 meters again. In the distance of 50 meters, they have already left nearly 400 corpses behind.

Seeing that there were less than 400 people left in front of him. The head of the regiment, Hou Guoying, knew that at a distance of 50 meters, he now only had the last and only chance, and that was a grenade. Use the difference of a few meters between the grenade and grenade throwing distance to give the little devil a big kill. Otherwise, their own warriors will face a situation of white-knuckle combat with the little devils.

Thinking of this, the regiment commander Hou Guoying put down the rifle in his hand, dragged over a box of wooden-handled grenades placed behind him, uncovered the covers of the grenades, and prepared to drop the bombs. At the same time, once again, a new operational order was issued. "Comrades, prepare grenades."

Immediately, except for the machine gunners and sharpshooters who continued to shoot and suppress the enemy's fire, the remaining fighters took out a grenade from their waists and prepared to throw.

"Throwing grenades" Finally, the little devil entered the throwing range of the grenade and began to prepare to throw the grenade he equipped at his position. The head of the regiment, Hou Guoying, did not hesitate, and immediately ordered loudly. At the same time, he also used his best strength to throw a grenade emitting white smoke into the charging team of the Yue army.

A whistling sound sounded, and nearly 700 grenades, with the order of the regiment commander Hou Guoying, were all thrown out of the position in a short period of three seconds and landed in the team of little devils who were charging rapidly.

"Baga grenade, get down and boom" Looking at the dense grenades above his head, the little devil captain who had been following behind the troops, couldn't help but have a headache. shouted loudly at the charging soldiers in front of him. However, before he could finish his words, in the middle of his own troops, there were bursts of grenade explosions one after another. What's more, in the midst of the explosion, the screams of his own soldiers were constantly heard.

The captain of the "Baga Cunning Eighth Route Army" raised his head and saw that the remaining hundreds of soldiers in his brigade were completely shrouded in the smoke from the grenade explosion. couldn't help but be furious, and slashed the command knife in his hand to the small tree in front of him.

However, what the captain of the army did not expect was that at the moment when he raised his head and raised the command knife in his hand. The reflection of the bright command knife was inadvertently revealing his position. The group of sharpshooters, lying on their positions, constantly searching for their prey, pulled the trigger on the captain of the army almost at the same time.

A messy rifle sound rang out in the midst of constantly exploding grenades. The captain of the army, who had just raised his head and was about to vent, was immediately hit by at least three bullets at the same time. The whole head was smashed at once, and the red and white brains splashed all over the ground.

And the deputy captain who was lying next to the captain wiped away the blood that splashed in his eyes, and when he saw the captain in front of him whose head had been shattered. couldn't help but feel a burst of fear, and quickly hugged his head and lay on the ground. Hopefully, the snipers of the opposing side will not find themselves.

At this moment, the smoke from the grenade explosion had slowly dissipated. After the continuous explosion of nearly 700 grenades, the eyes of the deputy captain were filled with the wounded soldiers who were constantly wailing, except for the stumps and severed arms in one place. Of course, there were those who were lucky enough to avoid the grenade explosion, but the number was very small, less than 100 soldiers.

"Eight Grid Tooth Road, the firepower of the Eighth Route Army is very powerful. Order, all soldiers immediately retreat, hurry, immediately retreat, out of the range of fire of the Eighth Route Army. Looking at a brigade in front of him, there were only nearly a hundred soldiers left, looking at the captain in front of him whose heads were shattered. The deputy captain no longer had the courage to continue the attack, and loudly gave the order to retreat in front of the remnants of the defeated army.

Hearing the order of the vice-captain to retreat, those little devils who have never suffered such a defeat. Looking at the corpse of a comrade-in-arms with missing arms and legs around him, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Even the wounded soldiers who were lying on the ground and wailing constantly forgot about them, took their weapons, and began to retreat quickly. So, more than 100 little devils, under the cheering of the soldiers' guns, left behind the corpses of their companions and the wounded and sick, and retreated back in the direction of the main force in embarrassment.

However, although the first regiment successfully repelled the first attack of the Yue army, and wiped out nearly a large battalion of the Yue army. However, the lump also paid a heavy price. Under the accurate shooting of the riflemen, a total of 348 soldiers died under the accurate marksmanship of the Japanese army, and 46 soldiers were seriously injured and could not participate in the next battle. The rest were more than 200 lightly wounded, but after a simple bandage, it did not affect the rest of the battle.

However, although the soldiers paid the price of losing more than two companies, they won more than ten minutes for the third battalion that was digging trenches behind them. In these ten minutes, the third battalion and nearly 1,000 soldiers of the troops directly under the regiment once again dug the entire trench to a depth of nearly half a meter, which could completely resist the next attack of the little devils.

In the attack of the garrison wing, the first regiment only paid the price of two companies and completely annihilated it. However, the two main regiments led by Luo Zhihui, commander of the Second Brigade, were not so comfortable. Because, they were not only facing the most elite Kwantung Army brigade of the Yue Army, but at the same time, they were facing the Yue Army with a strength of nearly 10,000 people in two wings. Looking at the trenches in front of him, which were only less than half dug, he was looking at a Kwantung Army brigade that was attacking him in a daze. Brigade Commander Luo Zhihui can be said to be very anxious. However, in the face of the attack of the little devils, it was impossible for Luo Zhihui not to send troops to resist.

"Order: Commander Xu led all the combat personnel of the fourth regiment to block the first attack of the little devil with the existing fortifications. Commander Wang led all the personnel of the Fifth Regiment to continue digging trenches and building blocking fortifications, and at the same time, they were ready to join the battle at any time. Looking at the little devil who was getting closer and closer, the brigade commander Luo Zhihui ordered loudly. At the same time, he also picked up a rifle, took the guard company around him, followed the soldiers of the four regiments, entered the blocking position, and lay down in the shallow trench, waiting for the arrival of the little devil.

(To be continued)